Yeah. Wtf is the cable made out of? Little detail there. Did the guy who drew that cartoon calculate the weight of the cable? Only about a gillion tons. Ya know I reeeeally try to keep an open mind on these things.... .....but you are 10000000% right. I mean I could be missing something once again.... but meager a glimpse of Mar's surface. Oh... we're all gonna live underground. Ooookay. But I can do that in bumfuck.... "all the oil jobs left because of no more Maga".... N. Dakota. 40' intermodal containers suitable for burying can be had for less than $3K. Now the next logical question would be... ... who the f wants to live in a container? I mean the big screen beach scenes projected on the wall only go so far. These guys.... Bezos, Musk... they must be super super smart and they are of course).... but I'm missing what they see in the whole space thing. They get the benefit of the doubt however. They are smart.
Amazon was simply Bezos's paypal. Now he can go and devote his time to Rivian and Blue Origin and show that other chump how it's done. “As Exec Chair I will stay engaged in important Amazon initiatives but also have the time and energy I need to focus on the Day 1 Fund, the Bezos Earth Fund, Blue Origin, The Washington Post, and my other passions,” Bezos wrote. “I’ve never had more energy, and this isn’t about retiring. I’m super passionate about the impact I think these organizations can have.”
You wrote many times about that happening only few hundred years away , mind sharing some arguments/facts/videos to support it? Thanks.
Sorry working out in my head 1/2 asleep, still a long time, but I guess compareable to a ocean going liner transporting stuff.
And it can be a lot faster than 500 kph since once you get high enough that the air resistance is negligible, you can speed up quite a bit.